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Saturday, September 7, 2013

The Cache Valley Checklist!!

I was raised in the Salt Lake Valley (not born, I was born in California, that's something special about me!). My husband Chris was raised in Davis County (and also born in California, how weird is that?). Together, we are stuck living in Cache Valley. It's not that we hate Cache Valley... it's just that we would never want to live here permanently. No offense, but all the Loganites (what I call people born and raised in Cache Valley) are strangely proud of this little valley and think their high schools are the best and are very adamant about exactly which city in Cache Valley they live in and if you get it wrong, they get angry. Loganites tend to never really leave Cache Valley. We don't want that.

We are not Loganites. I am a Salt Laker, Chris is a Kaysville Man... but want us to be Scottish... Regardless of what we are, we're currently renting an apartment here, I'm changing my major so I'll be in school longer, so we'll be posing as Loganites for a few more years until we both are graduated. So while we're here, there is a list of things I want to do in Cache Valley, AKA, the Cache Valley Checklist! I'm making a list of 100 things to do in (and around) Cache Valley before we move away. I would love it if all you USU students and even true Loganites would join me in these things during your stay as Loganites!

This list is not in order, some are specific events and special occasions while others are things to do at anytime. When I complete an item on this list I will cross it off and write a post about it that will be linked beside it. Don't forget to read my thoughts on the activity by clicking the links! The farthest I got from the actually Cache County was Brigham City and Bear Lake, but I'm counting it because all Cache Valley tourism sites count it as well. (A very few of these things I have already done, but for the purposes of this post they don't count yet)

Hike to the top of Mount Logan and look out over the whole valley (Logan)

Demolition Derby (anywhere)

Cache Valley Ballroom Fest (Logan)

Whew! That was long and difficult! Thank you to Lisa Loves Logan, Cache Valley Visitors Bureau, and Nothing to Do in Logan for helping me out with this list. For anyone interested, Nothing To Do in Logan is a fantastic website that keeps up with all events going on in Logan and the surrounding Cache Valley. It's a great resource for Loganites! PS, if you like this post, you might also want to check out My American Journey, which is all (well most) the things I want to do in every state in the USA.

If you think I'm missing anything from this list, please leave a comment below! I'm willing to add more if it's something special! Also, don't forget to comment if you join in on The Cache Valley Checklist as well! I'd love to hear about your adventures!

26 comments:

I think that by the time you have completed this list you will see that you are a Loganite too. I think you should visit one of our high schools and see what great school spirit we have. Join us for a football game. Some things you have missed that I love. Make a boat and float it down one of the canals. Float down the Oneida Narrows. Get an O'Aggie Bar at the Bluebird candy shop. Get a ham and cheese salad at Fredrico's. Feed the ducks at first dam. And last of all get to know all of the great Loganite people.

There is a fair amount of small town things to do in cahe valley. I do agree the loganites or happy bubble valley is very much grew up there stay there and die kind. I grew up there and felt like there was never enough exciting things to do. Obviously there is more than i remember. I have been gone 8 yrs and happy to come back and visit. I do love growing and discovering new things as i travel. I miss the restarants the very most so definetly enjoy those i mentioned. Oh and buy some cache valley cheese and brigham peaches and bear lake raspberry jam for me, aggie ice cream or charlies ice cream, or caspers fat boy. Yum! Crap i am hugely craving food now.

I didn't include the Peppridge Farm Factory because I have been there many times, but I think I should add it just so anyone else reading knows about it. Thanks for reminding me!

I was totally thinking last night at work that I should do a Salt Lake Valley one! And my husband could help me with a Davis county one. This could be really fun! Keep reading my blog and maybe it'll come!

Thank you for this list! My husband and I moved here so he can go to school and I feel the same way as you. I don't hate it here, but I definitely don't love it. I grew up in Salt Lake too and the city just speaks to my soul.

Cleaning the sink is on our to-do list this week! Another thing that's fun is Baby Animal Days at the American West Heritage Center in March. You basically get to see and touch a bunch of baby animals. It's kind of aimed at kids, but I had so much fun with all the cute little animals. They also have a corn maze in the fall. I'm not sure if it's going yet.Hit me up if you ever need to reminisce about SLC. :)

I would love Baby Animal Days!! I didn't even know that existed! That's going on the list! Thank you!

Yeah, Cache Valley is very different from Salt Lake. I would always love a new friend if you ever want to do something on this list together! We could do a couples thing. Just email my blog and let me know! :)

This is a great list! I am born and raised in Logan, and while I don't think we have the best schools (not sure why anyone would think that) I do think it's a pretty stellar place to live! If you know what to do. :) Like your list! And even though I would love to see what it would be like to live somewhere else, something inside me just had to say.. I do think it's not a bad place. ;) Thanks for the awesome list! Some of these things I would have never known about! :)

Ha ha, the school thing was really just this one kid who kept bragging and saying Mountain Crest was the best high school in Utah. I basing that idea on one kid, although I have to give the valley credit, because all the high schools here are bigger and in much better condition than mine was. But Logan really isn't a bad place. My cousins live in Smithfield and they love it!

It makes me happy that Loganites enjoy this list as well! Thanks for reading and don't forget to come back and read about my adventures!!! (And in a few weeks I'll be doing a giveaway! So come back and enter that!)

Don't forget the many demolition derby's! I lived in Logan for 3 years before moving to Seattle, WA. I miss little Cache Valley, I think once you are gone, you will miss it too. :) This list is great, but I would definitely add at least one demolition derby!

I found you through Pinterest and oh this brought back memories. My husband and I never really liked Logan when we went to USU, but that didn't stop us from getting to know the area. I'd say we did at least 50% of the things on here. There are things on here that we always talked about doing, but never did. I hope you get to do them all.

Oh if you are out at the Golden Spike area then it's worth it to keep driving about 15 miles and see the Spiral Jetty. Here are the directions http://www.diaart.org/sites/page/59/1310

This has really opened my eyes about how much there is to do in Cache Valley because I've always thought this place was really boring, though I don't know why everyone is obsessed about Pepperidge Farm, its a dirty, small shop with old hard cookies and crackers that they couldn't sell in the first place :P.

:) The stuff at the Pepperidge Farm store is better than fresh, it is just the stuff that didn't pass the perfection test like weight in the packages, misaligned cookies, etc. They put them in the shop right after production, so they are likely more fresh than the stuff you get at the grocery store that has been shipped, stocked, and sitting on the shelf. :) Great deals too. :) Though I agree the store is a bit shoddy.

While you are out in Richmond, it pays to stop at Lower's Outlet store too if you like meat! We love the sliced roast beef the best.

I grew up in the valley and haven't done most the things on your list. I hope you have a great time doing them. I would also add hiking the Wellsvilles, start in Mendon up deep canyon. It is a hard but good and worth while hike. When you reach the saddle you can see both sides so well it is awesome!

What about the Old Barn Theater??? You mention several types of theatrical performances, but you missed the Old Barn? Shoot, they are even having tryouts for "Seven Brides for Seven Brothers" tonight! (April 15th, 2014) Now me, I was born in Bear Lake County, and raised in California. I'm still in California, living in a town larger than most state capitols, and there isn't a quarter of the stuff 'to do' available to me, right here, about 75 miles from LA, that there is in Logan. I'm coming up next week to see my daughter graduate (again) from USU, and I'm going to visit Knit Unique and the gallery up THERE because I can't get decent yarn and art supplies down here. The scenery is a lot better up there, too.

In fact, there are only two things that are NOT better there than here; winter weather and my health insurance coverage. If it weren't for the latter, I'd move so fast the government would be hunting me down to see how I bent the map.

Anyway, remember; 100 things to do in Cache Valley? Paltry. Really paltry....and when you leave, you will wish you could come back. I do.

You should really read Diana's post. You might not see it now, but there is something special about Cache Valley. I might be a bit biased as I was born in Logan, raised in Preston and a USU Alumni, but I have spent a number of years in the Military traveling to all sorts of places, and experiencing all sorts of things. I will tell you that in the summer, there is no other place I would rather be than Cache Valley.I live in Houston now, and just like Diana, there isn't a quarter of the stuff to do around here as there was in Cache Valley. Save for only two things (Jobs, and winter weather), Cache Valley is truely the perfect place to be.Glad to see you are trying to take as much of it in as you can while you are there, because I speak the truth when I say that you will miss the hell out of it when you are gone.